The Poverty of Privacy Rights / Khiara M. Bridges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bridges, Khiara M., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of governmental power without limits. Courts have routinely upheld the constitutionality of privacy invasions on the poor, and legal scholars typically understand marginalized populations to have "weak versions" of the privacy rights everyone else enjoys. Khiara M. Bridges investigates poor mothers' experiences with the state-both when they receive public assistance and when they do not. Presenting a holistic view of just how the state intervenes in all facets of poor mothers' privacy, Bridges shows how the Constitution has not been interpreted to bestow these women with family, informational, and reproductive privacy rights. Bridges seeks to turn popular thinking on its head: Poor mothers' lack of privacy is not a function of their reliance on government assistance-rather it is a function of their not bearing any privacy rights in the first place. Until we disrupt the cultural narratives that equate poverty with immorality, poor mothers will continue to be denied this right.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Moral Construction of Poverty

2. The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine: Revealing, Yet Misleading

3. Family Privacy

4. Informational Privacy

5. Reproductive Privacy

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-270) and index

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9781503602304

1503602303

OCLC:

1198930601